This paper studies foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on gender labor market practices of domestic firms, based … on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of …

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health …

show that, in terms of health setbacks, children exposed in utero only to the former suffered as much as those exposed to … stronger crop failure effect for children born in isolated areas …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …’ preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …

physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings’ sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …